From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 23493
Date: 2003-06-18
>Cf. Slavic badnjak 'Christmas tree, log' or Albanian
> --- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
> wrote:
>
> > I think that the word "kraciun" must has pre-Slavic
> > origin, because
> > it is also present in Albanian as <kërcuni>
> > `tree-stump; stub.
> > log. fig. meaning `lonely; bereft' and <kërcune>
> > `lonely woman',
> > preserved in one or other way, much oldest form
> > "kraciun". In fact,
> > it is prefixed form, formed by Alb. prefix kër-/gër-
> > and Alb. word
> > <cung> `tree-stump, stub', which I have discussed in
> > this list a
> > weak before from a nasalized prefixed zero-grade
> > from *t- + sunk- of
> > PIE root *sek- `to cut'.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
> *****GK: Interesting. How would you relate this to the
> concept of Christmas? Something to do with festive
> trees?*****
>
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